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how new programs like Gapminder are changing the way we view, access and share data.
Updated on Aug 25, 11
Created on Dec 20, 09
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a group of related blog posting about google, gapminder, Hans Rosling, and related topics; use in Google Docs is featured.
Google is actually building its results from original government data sources -- the former earthquake.usgs.gov from the U.S. Geological Survey and the latter from the U.S. Census Bureau. \nBlog author explains the U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra has pledged to bring more govt data feeds available to the public.\nThis is part of the Google Public Data project.
After nearly a year of waiting to see what Google would do with the purchase of Hans Rosling's GapMinder project we've been rewarded! Google has integrated the GapMinder time-series data visualization tools directly into Google Spreadsheets as a 'Gadget'.
we have acquired Gapminder's Trendalyzer software, and we welcome the Trendalyzer team to Google. Trendalyzer generates moving graphics and other novel effects in the display of facts, figures, and statistics in presentations.
this documentation sharing api will discriminate data sources and be happy to do it. There are still levels for academics and others for the "masses" (the great unwashed)
what about Scribd? The difference here is that Twidox will concentrate on the high end of the market – data, statistics, academic articles, dissertations, and so forth. And the focus is not so much on any old user as direct co-operation with institutions. Twidox has so far managed to pick up the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) as a client and is now looking to extend into European universities.
oogle has just launched a new search feature that makes it possible to search and compare public data in an interactive graph. In this first version, data for unemployment, for all US states and districts, are available and the results are very interesting:
For advanced users with a knowledge of JavaScript, Motion Chart is available through Google Vizualisation API. This allows you to embed Motion Chart on your own website and does not require uploading the data to Google’s servers
linked data; building an open web for it to match the WWW.
axis sample using W3schools.com historical browser statistics
"One of the latest mind map web applications, Text2MindMap beta, leverages the true force of the semantic web and sorts text into a series of clusters or nodes ranked and categorized. "
take your activity and break it down into the component elements and match these against the different taxonomic levels and the learning actions.
take this survey to determine what type of internet animal you are.
44 items | 3 visits
how new programs like Gapminder are changing the way we view, access and share data.
Updated on Aug 25, 11
Created on Dec 20, 09
Category: Computers & Internet
URL: